Science drivers of a 50-m AO telescope

• Some leading science programs undertaken with Very Large Telescopes and challenges driving the progress of the Extremely Large Telescopes are discussed together with the corresponding requirements. They concern expolanets, Earth-like planets, habitable zones, formation of stars and galaxies, first stars and cosmology. A description is attempted

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology (hsv//eng)

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stars formation

habitable zones

Earth-like planets

exoplanets

Extremely Large Telescopes

50 m AO Telescope

Very Large Telescopes

star formation

galaxies

cosmology

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